brain

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) has been associated with dementia, but the association has not been studied over a long period of time. Anna Nordström and Peter Nordström from Umeå University in Sweden recently published a study in PLOS Medicine that…

Brain-cooling experiment may help ease epilepsy someday About 50 million people worldwide deal with sudden, recurring seizures that are the hallmark of epilepsy. Treatment with medication or surgery does not work for some patients, so scientists have been investigating a…

Scientists ID human protein essential for human cytomegalovirus replication Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV), a highly prevalent herpesvirus, infects over 30 percent of people worldwide. While most remain symptom-free, HCMV can be dangerous or deadly for people with weakened immune systems or for…

Similar to predictive texting on your cell phone, our brains also predict what’s coming next when someone is speaking. How do our brains make these predictions? A new PLOS Biology study reveals the mechanisms in the brain’s auditory cortex involved…

Extinct Tasmanian tiger’s brain may have been capable of complex cognition In a recent PLOS ONE study, researchers examined and compared the brain structure of an extinct Tasmanian tiger with that of a modern-day Tasmanian devil. They found that the…

A new study suggests that as our brains age, groups of connections that co-ordinate brain activity during memory tasks become smaller and more numerous, indicating reduced cohesion. Elizabeth Davison of Princeton University, USA, and colleagues describe a novel method to…